DarthSkywalker
🦉Your Most Aggro Pal (he/him)
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Thats the personal style that matches his character. Again you don't seem to be willing understand its about diversity with his look. Why shouldn't he be allowed to do something unique to him? You just seem not to care for the guys personal style. That doesn't make it "wrong."
If you actually bothered to LOOK at the paint there are actual designs in there. Its not just paint splashed on.
Personal style in wrestling is relative. He is the emo equivalent of the Godwinns. Guys like Austin, the Rock, Triple H, Amdrag, Benoit, Angle, Punk, Randy Savage, Eddie, Mysterio, Edge, and so many others were and able to have a personal style while still looking like a pro wrestler, not as if they are going to some **** ass rave. Hardy's thing was a gimmick to go along with his youth. Now he is in his mid 30s, and still looks ridiculous.
Most people would disagree with you. The matches you are complaining about were fine. Seems you're problem is the storytelling. What you are complaing about is the way they used psychology to bring emotional reponses up and down with pacing and flare. Wrestlings been like that for years. Plenty of the greats have done that.
Plenty of great matches have done this, and what sets them apart is that the stretch runs are culminations, not completely separate from the first two thirds of the match. Kurt basically does the needless and mandatory early brawling of all Rock main even matches during the Attitude Era, just on the mat.
If it is all about the crowd being into, I guess Goldberg had a great match every single week during the streak.

What you are saying here describes what you consider to be Kurt Angles best matches later on.
What?
Angle always had trouble with late kick outs, but he wasn't having inherently "stupid" or "convoluted" matches before the period I stated. They also weren't formulaic.
Here's your problem. If you prefer that its fine but you seem to want Angle stuck in one gear when the kind of matches you want were nothing but nonstop physical and no emotion. He expanded his style and diversified whast he did in the ring to not only add more layers but extend his career. waht you seem to prefer is nothing but the ground and point action. If anything Kurt got BETTER because wrestling is about MORE than just the action but the emotion and the psychology.
No, you are completely misrepresenting my point. Angle at his best was doing what he does best. Angle has never and will never be Bret Hart. He has never been able to work a match around an arm, leg, a back or other such injuries. He has never been able to systematically break down his opponent without it looking formulaic or without losing his way. But what he could do was a work a match around wearing down his opponents through his sheer physical aggression leading to them being vulnerable to his high impact moves and ankle lock. He was good enough to fill the down time pretty well with holds. Basically he was Eddie lite from that Halloween Havoc with Rey, just not quite as nasty. Angle's "psychology" before was just fine for what he did. He needed reigning in at times and was never the best, but he was great at what he did.
But Angle after? It was like watching Triple H try and be a high flying Luchador, or Big Show doing the HBK "get my ass kicked for 25 min" shtick. It is just all wrong.
Some of the mathes you list here are guilty of the same spotfests and pandering that you just complained about with Angles later more recent matches.
None of those are spotfest and none crap on the first 2/3 of the match to play up the obvious melodrama. All of them followed their story from beginning to end, played up aspect of each wrestler's character and history, and all were quite different and brilliant. His anger and need to simply brutalize Shane, his fear that he wasn't in Rock's League, the familiarity, between him and Benoit, the elusive of Rey(something he really hadn't run into up to that point), etc.
But I am more then willing to listen to your reasoning.
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